Today there were some major advancements in our organization and plans towards focusing our efforts on the Sea Star transcriptome project. I ended up doing a bunch of what felt like monkey-work, but I think it has […]

Today was exploratory…we’re attempting to mine the SS data by exploring the various tools out there that we discussed yesterday. I spent most of the day trying to merge files and examining the individual sample […]

It’s different from the story you’re used to. This one involves many sweet electronic databases and coding to get the job done. See below for all the awesome coding we did today within IPython to filter our […]

Scientists have begun to consider an organism as a sum of it’s parts, that is its associated microbes. Rather than the old view of all microbes being foes and definitively separate from the organism (host), it’s […]

48 stars were collected from Ruby Beach in Olympic National Park (6 asymptomatic, twisting, lesioned)
~6 asymptomatic
Could not find disease from this site 2 weeks ago
Mo was there 3-4 days ago and saw diseased […]

Today we heard about many pathogen infections from around the globe that included different domains and kingdoms. One fungal infection, one polychaete worm, and two bacterial infections. Three of these involved […]

With every classic whodunit, there is the crime, the perpetrator, and the victim. While Angela Landsbury always seemed to solve the case, the reality is gathering the evidence, examining the appropriate areas, and […]